Bad Ideas Quotes

43 Bad Ideas quotes by 36 unique authors

As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses. — Frederic Raphael
Worst ideas? Me? Whatever do you mean? There are no bad ideas. — Christian Audigier
When you see evil do not form ideas that are in the likeness of that evil; do not think of the evil as bad, but… — Christian D. Larson
The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me forget it. — H. L. Mencken
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time. — Ben Horowitz
Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas. — Walter Darby Bannard
Everything worthwhile is a good idea, but did you ever notice there is more bad ideas that will work than there is good ones? — Will Rogers
The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. — Alfred Whitney Griswold
In a rising market, enough of your bad ideas will pay off so that you'll never learn that you should have fewer ideas. — Daniel Kahneman
If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate. — Steven Pinker
The only bad ideas are the ones never tried. — Michael Buckley
It was possible, he understood, for a person's life to become just a long series of mistakes, and that the end, when it came, was… — Justin Cronin
It shook up Trout to realize that even he could bring evil into the world â€” in the form of bad ideas. — Kurt Vonnegut
It's not that I don't know that it's a bad idea. It's that, lately, bad ideas have a particular hold over me. — Holly Black
If two parties with two sets of bad ideas cooperate, the result is not good policy, but policy that is extremely bad. What we really… — Ron Paul
I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas. — Michael Moorcock
In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. — Alfred Whitney Griswold
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always… — Alfred Whitney Griswold
No matter how hard I try, I just never seem to run out of bad ideas — Hussein Nishah
A nation that values bad philosophy above good plumbing will have neither good philosophy nor good plumbing — John Gardner

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